lol I just realised how random my posts are. lol

summer

summer holidays are here. looking forward to my new job woo hoo. make some extra cash as a sales represenative.

My university/Benim güzel üniversite.

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Peacock at the New Fortune Theatre/Evet, üniversitede tavus kuşu vardır.

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Sunken Garden/batık bahçe

Turkish Children Learn Their Mother Tongue Earliest

A research conducted worldwide has established that Turkish children are the fastest at learning their native language. The results were released at the International Association for the Study of Child Language's 10th congress in Berlin, Germany, where it was indicated that Turkish children could speak their native language by the age of 2-3 years in a grammatically correct manner.
Linguistics Professor Klann Delius noted that The Turkish Language was easy to learn. "Suffixes in Turkish that determine person and tense are regular. Using them is like arranging Lego pieces."
According to the research, it takes 12 years for Arab speaking children, and 4-5 years for German children to acquire the grammatical mastery in their mother tongue. The congress held in Berlin is attended by about 800 linguists from around the world.

28.07.2005 - Anadolu News Agency (aa) Berlin from Zaman on Sunday

Are human rights evil, violent and complete nonsense?

According to Jeremy Bentham in Anarchial Fallacies (some philosopher dude who died ages ago) they are ‘nonsense upon stilts’. Tall nonsense. Why?
The French declaration of the rights of man affirms that everyone has ‘natural and imprescriptable’ rights which consist of the right to liberté 2propriété, sûreté, and résistance à l'oppression. That is liberty, property, security and freedom of oppression.
Liberty Lets look at liberty which is by far one of the most ambiguous rights. Liberty is freedom. Liberty is the condition of being free from restriction or control. There is no line you can draw on freedom. You either have it all or have none. If you are a liberalist like me you’d believe that this is fair as most people have good intentions and really just want to live and let live. There are a minority of psychopaths out there but hey we can punish them because we are free to do so. These psychopaths can also avenge us because they have the freedom to do so. However majority rules and they usually don’t get far without getting caught except for Jack the Ripper. But let’s not diverge from our topic. So in effect if you support the right to liberty you also support the right to kill. If killing is evil then yes so are human rights.
The right to property If you believe in the right to property you believe in the right to squat. Some random stranger can come into your house and say ‘I’m camping out here for the moment and you cant prevent me from doing so , I have a natural right to property’. The right to property infers that man has the right to everything. Unfortunately what is every mans right is also no mans right. So basically by giving man the right to property you are extinguishing his right to property. My house is not just mine if I have the right to property. The Squatter also has the right to own my house. My neighbour can renovate it, destroy it do what he wants with it and I can’t say anything because he too has the right to property. To prevent him from doing so would be to take away both his liberty and his intangible right to have anything. This can actually be an attractive idea if you don’t believe in stealing. Look at the Australian Aboriginal tribes for example who believed that everything belongs to everyone so they can borrow and take as they please. And everyone was cool with that. Sharing is caring. This leads me to question is sharing the opposite of stealing??
But I deviate again....
Security The right to security means that person has the right to protect himself against anything that he might believe will endanger his person. So in effect all laws are void if they endanger man, this includes conscription, workchoices (ok this is an aussie joke) and severe jail terms including the death penalty. So what do you do? You are in court and the big burly judge is just about to sentence you to life imprisonment for the crime you’ve committed. Well if you have the right to security you are by all means entitled to unconceal your scout’s knife and kill the judge. And there is nothing the courtroom can do about it because you merely enforcing your natural right to protect yourself from harm.
Resistance to Oppression This is an even murkier right. If you already have the three rights mentioned above what is the point of this one? Surely your rights to liberty, property and security protect you from being oppressed already? I believe the right to resist oppression can also mean you have the right to oppress. The fault lies in the definition of oppression which is the act of oppressing; arbitrary and cruel exercise of power. You are chronic smoker about to be treated for a lung infection. You need a cigarette desperately and the nurse says prohibits you from acquiring one. She is taking away your freedom to smoke which in one way or another is oppression. You feel oppressed and you are about to exercise your freedom to resist it. What do you do? You can trip the nurse and have a smoko. Are you being violent? Yes but hey you can be violent when it comes to resisting your oppressor. There is a positive aspect to this right and that is non-violent means of resisting your oppressor e.g. a peace rally.
This leads me to believe that human rights are evil, nonsense and violent. However this can be changed not by removing the freedom but by adding detail and specifics to how you can exercise your natural rights.

what can you say when there is nothing left to say?

Why are we so afraid of religion?

I have religious views. I consider myself religous but i never make it public. I dont think I'm the only one.
People talk about the death of religion. but is it really? In my opinion I think there is a massive hidden revival of religion.
In a increasingly globalised world, and the emphasis of political correctness I think that people are too afraid to publicise their beliefs. All major religions come with their politics and history, their peace and their wars. Relgion nowadays is associated with everything from colonial conquests to organised terrorism.
so who can blame me and those like myself for keeping my religous views private?
I see relgion as a personal relationship between myself and God. No one has the right to poke and prod me for my choice. But really I cant help but admire those who can don their religous clothing and go out in public. Yes I admire the jewish boy in my politics class who wears his yarmulk everyday but I also feel ashamed because I can never express myself like him. I can never say this is a part of me and I dont care what you think.

Behind every great woman there is an idiot embarassing her.

The Queen seems like a lovely British woman. I am biased coz I think her grandson Prince William is cute and charming. Too bad her husband Prince Phillip is a total idiot, he brings political incorrectness to a new level. so much that you just start laughing every time he makes a new gaffe even though its racist, sexist or any other ist that I havent mentioned.


here are a few of his quotes:
i have plagiarised from these websites, but its not plagiarising anymore coz i am linking it ;)http://overseas.com.au/blog/index.php/prince-philip/

http://www.allgreatquotes.com/prince_philip_quotes.shtml

If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate how much more spacious aircraft have become. Unless you travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.

To Australian Aborigines, during a visit to Queensland, 2002 ' Still throwing spears?'

I never see any home cooking - all I get is fancy stuff.


If you see a man opening a car door for a woman it means one of two things: it’s either a new woman or a new car.”

Following a performance by a children’s band in Australia, the Prince asked: “You were playing your instruments weren’t you? Or do you have tape recorders under you seats?”

He also said to a group of deaf children in Cardiff about a school’s steel band: “Deaf? If you are near there, no wonder you are deaf.”

It's a pleasant change to be in a country that isn't ruled by its people.
To Alfredo Stroessner, the Paraguayan dictator.

'The bastards murdered half my family'.
In room full of press agents, commenting on Russians in 1967, having been asked whether he would consider a visit there

'What do you gargle with - pebbles?'
To singer Tom Jones, after 1969 Royal Variety Performance.

'It looks as if it was put in by an Indian'
Pointing at an old-fashioned fuse box while on a tour of a factory near Edinburgh.

I can only assume that it is largely due to the accumulation of toasts to my health over the years that I am still enjoying a fairly satisfactory state of health and have reached such an unexpectedly great age.


Aren't there any male supervisors? This is a nanny city.
In San Francisco on meeting five city officials - all of whom were female.

When meeting the President of Nigeria, who was dressed in traditional robes, fashion Prince Philip declared: “You look like you’re ready for bed.”

The Queen and Prince Philip were on official business to open the Bristol laboratory for Advanced Dynamic Engineering facility at Bristol University. The facility had been closed especially so that they could officially open it but that did not stop him from commenting: “It doesn’t look like much work goes on at this University.”

Never pass up the chance to go to the loo or take a poo.” That was his response when asked how he dealt with public appearances.

There has been so much campaigning for support for our forces suffering from post traumatic stress disorder but Prince Philip seems to think it is a load of codswallop. Talking of his own time in the forces, he said: “We didn’t have counsellors running around every time somebody let off a gun, asking ‘Are you all right? Are you sure you don’t have a ghastly problem?’ You just got on with it.”

During the recession in 1981, his words of wisdom for the millions of unemployed were: “Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.”


While on a visit in Scotland, the Prince was speaking to three young employees of a Scottish Fish Farm and exclaimed, “Oh! You are the people ruining the rivers and the environment.”

In 1993, while speaking to a Briton in Hungary: “You can’t have been here that long – you haven’t got a pot belly”.

“If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.”

And in 1986, on a state visit to China, he told British students: “If you stay here much longer, you’ll all be slitty-eyed.”


and of course: Tolerance is the one essential ingredient … You can take it from me that the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance.